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Electromagnetic induction imaging with atomic magnetometers has disclosed unprecedented domains for imaging, from security screening to material characterization. However, applications to low-conductivity specimens -- most notably for…

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The projected rapid growth of battery cell production over the next decade demands advanced diagnostic tools for quality control, ageing prediction, and recycling. Most existing techniques lack the spatial and temporal resolution required…

A ferromagnetic needle is predicted to precess about the magnetic field axis at a Larmor frequency $\Omega$ under conditions where its intrinsic spin dominates over its rotational angular momentum, $N\hbar \gg I\Omega$ ($I$ is the moment of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-18 Derek F. Jackson Kimball , Alexander O. Sushkov , Dmitry Budker

In this paper we demonstrate a magnetically guided Cesium (Cs) atom interferometer in the Talbot-Lau regime for inertial sensing with two interferometer schemes, Mach-Zenhder and Ramsey-Borde. The recoil frequency of the Cs atoms and the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Lu Qi , Zhaohui Hu , Tristan Valenzuela , Yuchi Zhang , Yueyang Zhai , Wei Quan , Nick Waltham , Jiancheng Fang

We report on a laser based $^{199}$Hg co-magnetometer deployed in an experiment searching for a permanent electric dipole moment of the neutron. We demonstrate a more than five times increased signal to-noise-ratio in a direct comparison…

In this article, operation of optical magnetometers detecting static (DC) and oscillating (AC) magnetic fields is studied and comparison of the devices is performed. To facilitate the comparison, the analysis is carried out in the same…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Piotr Put , Kacper Popiołek , Szymon Pustelny

We propose a magnetometer for the precise measurement of AC magnetic fields that uses a Terbium-doped optical fiber with half-waveplates built into it at specified distances. Our scheme uses an open-loop quantum control technique called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Manish K. Gupta , Jonathan Kunjummen , Xiaoting Wang , Jonathan P. Dowling

We introduce a vector atomic magnetometer that employs a fast-rotating magnetic field applied to a pulsed $^{87}$Rb scalar atomic magnetometer. This approach enables simultaneous measurements of the total magnetic field and its two polar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Tao Wang , Wonjae Lee , Mark Limes , Tom Kornack , Elizabeth Foley , Michael Romalis

We report the use of an atomic magnetometer based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with frequency modulated light (FM NMOR) to detect nuclear magnetization of xenon gas. The magnetization of a spin-exchange-polarized xenon sample ($1.7…

Atomic magnetometry is one of the most sensitive field-measurement techniques for biological, geo-surveying, and navigation applications. An essential process in atomic magnetometry is measurement of optical polarization rotation of a…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-19 Xuting Yang , Meryem Benelajla , Jennifer T. Choy

Double-resonance optically pumped magnetometers are an attractive instrument for unshielded magnetic field measurements due to their wide dynamic range and high sensitivity. Use of linearly polarised pump light creates alignment in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Stuart J. Ingleby , Carolyn O'Dwyer , Paul F. Griffin , Aidan S. Arnold , Erling Riis

We describe a 3He magnetometer capable to measure high magnetic fields (B > 0.1 Tesla) with a relative accuracy of better than 10^-12. Our approach is based on the measurement of the free induction decay of gaseous, nuclear spin polarized…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Nikiel , P. Blümler , W. Heil , M. Hehn , S. Karpuk , A. Maul , E. Otten , L. M. Schreiber , M. Terekhov

We present a theoretical and experimental study of spin precession in the presence of both a static and an orthogonal oscillating magnetic field, which is nonresonant, not harmonically related to the Larmor precession, and of arbitrary…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-09-02 G. Bevilacqua , V. Biancalana , Y. Dancheva , L. Moi

We have developed a technique for precise measurement of small magnetic fields using nonlinear magneto-optic rotation (NMOR). The technique relies on the resonant laser beam being chopped. During the on time, the atoms are optically pumped…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-23 Harish Ravishankar , Sapam Ranjita Chanu , Vasant Natarajan

We report on precise measurements of magnetic field gradients extracted from transverse relaxation rates of precessing spin samples. The experimental approach is based on the free precession of gaseous, nuclear spin polarized $^3$He and…

Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) have demonstrated significant potential in weak magnetic field detection due to their high sensitivity. In this study, we developed an Mz-type optically pumped rubidium magnetometer using a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Zhengyu Su , Yang Li , Yongbiao Yang , Yanhua Wang , Jun He , Junmin Wang

The work presents experimental results of precision magnetoresistance dr(H,T) measurements obtained for canonical heavy fermion compounds CeAl2, CeAl3, CeCu6 and substitutional solid solutions CeCu6-xAux (x=0.1 and 0.2) and Ce(Al0.95M0.05)2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 N E Sluchanko , A V Bogach , V V Glushkov , S V Demishev , N A Samarin , G S Burhanov , O D Chistiakov , D N Sluchanko

We describe a room-temperature alkali-metal atomic magnetometer for detection of small, high frequency magnetic fields. The magnetometer operates by detecting optical rotation due to the precession of an aligned ground state in the presence…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 M. P. Ledbetter , V. M. Acosta , S. M. Rochester , D. Budker , S. Pustelny , V. V. Yashchuk

Cardiomagnetometry is a growing field of noninvasive medical diagnostics that has triggered a need for affordable high-sensitivity magnetometers. Optical pumping magnetometers are promising candidates satisfying that need since it was…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Georg Bison , Robert Wynands , Antoine Weis

We describe a technique for mapping the spatial variation of static electric, static magnetic, and rf magnetic fields using a pulsed atomic or molecular beam. The method is demonstrated using a beam designed to measure the electric dipole…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. J. Hudson , H. T. Ashworth , D. M. Kara , M. R. Tarbutt , B. E. Sauer , E. A. Hinds